Foundation Grants and Awards
The Ryan Licht Sang Bipolar Foundation has made the following Grants and Awards in furtherance of its mission and its Quest For The Test™: 1) To the Massachusetts General Hospital (Harvard) (four annual grants) to
co-sponsor the Annual Pediatric Bipolar Disorder
Conference in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011, attended by researchers, scientists and clinicians from
around the world; 2) To the University of Chicago - Department of Human
Genetics (two annual grants) to support their research in bioinformatics
and human genetics in the search for a predictor of Bipolar Disorder; 3) To the University of Pittsburgh Medical School to support the Key Study of
the genetic risk to children of parents with Bipolar Disorder; 4) To the
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry to establish a Quest For The Test™ Pilot Research Award for a Young
Investigator in Bipolar Disorder; 5) To Dr. Harold Koplewicz of the Child
Mind Institute and his team at the Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research researching an early predictor of Bipolar
Disorder through analysis of resting-state fMRIs; 6) To the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine - ADAP project (two annual grants) to educate high school students, their parents and their teachers about Depression and Bipolar Disorder and to help reduce the stigma associated with these illnesses.
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